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What happens when I select remove everything option

Anonymous
2022-06-26T10:26:39+00:00

I actually wanted to reset my laptop as it wasn't performing well.

So I went to setting - update and security - advanced options - reset your PC.

I selected remove everything.

Will the remove everything option remove data from all drives or just the drive where windows is installed ?

If it will, how can I recover ?

Windows for home | Windows 11 | Recovery and backup

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  1. DaveM121 872.6K Reputation points Independent Advisor
    2022-06-26T11:00:40+00:00

    Hi Manomay,

    I am Dave, I will help you with this.

    The 'Remove Everything' option will remove your user profile form the PC along with all your personal files and installed software.

    Only the data on the C drive will be removed, other drives will not be affected by the reset.

    It is only if you choose the 'clean the drives' option that will remove data from all drives and will take a long time to complete.

    Any data removed during a Windows reset cannot be recovered in Windows, there is no option for that, the only option would be to use a 3rd party recovery utility to try to recover files.

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  1. Anonymous
    2022-06-26T11:30:08+00:00

    Thank you very much Dave.

    My heart was literally pounding.

    Hope it turns out well.

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  2. DaveM121 872.6K Reputation points Independent Advisor
    2022-06-26T11:32:32+00:00

    Hi Manomay, glad to help!

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